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Newsletter 26.01.2009 transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH 28.01. - 01.02.2009 House of World Cultures Berlin, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 transmediale.09 news
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1. Live stream 2. Late Shift 3. Performance: Overbug 4. backyard radio 5. Open Space
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1. Live stream transmediale.09 will feature two live streams from the Conference and Salon. These streams will broadcast the debates live around the world, but also allow communities to interact with speakers through live IRC chatrooms, and even Skype uplinks, broadcast directly into the auditoriums. transmediale.09's stream team will use the latest open source programming and software to provide a unique online experience that pushes the boundaries of both festival participation and webcast technology. Our streaming programme is now online. For details of where and what we will stream please visit http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale09-streams-help-page-en Dedicated transmediale IRC channels provide platforms for extended discussion leading up to and during the actual event, giving the remote community a powerful voice and a chance to engage with the sessions in Berlin. For details how to get involved (we're online now!) please visit http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale09-irc
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2. Late Shift In the evening DJs turn the tables and serve music for a collective recreation with open talk, bar and food. Join the Late Shift of transmediale.09. Daily at the Cafe Global stage. Kalle Laar: Ethic Disco Tue, 27.01. 21.30 hrs, Wed, 28.01. 22.00 hrs Ethic Disco mixes speeches, songs and pop cultural concepts. It will discuss future-oriented artistic concepts and strategies aimed at sensitising the public about the impact of paradigmatic change within our society. Kalle Laar is sound artist and produces radio plays and music for theatre. He is the founder of The Temporary Soundmuseum and a collection on Venyl Culture. http://www.soundmuseum.com/ Relja Bobic: DJ Moodswinger presents: DIS-PATCHED Thu, 29.01. 22.00 hrs In this special 1,5 hour DJ set, Relja Bobic (aka DJ Moodswinger) will present a musical cross-section of the 'history' of Belgrade's Dis-patch Festival of cutting-edge music and related art, which was established in 2002 through the activities of Belgradeyard Sound System collective. Relja Bobic is the artistic and managing director of the Dis-patch festival. He is also acitve as a a freelance curator, radio editor, DJ and occasionally as journalist and musician. http://myspace.com/djmoodswinger Robert Meunier: Strahlen und Wellen Fri, 30.01. 22.00 hrs In his work 'Rays and waves: A trajectory of auditive representations of invisible danger' Robert Meunier aka .:u:min:. follows the esthetics of fear surrounding new technologies, using meassuring devices and samples of representations of rays and waves in film and music. Miyuki Osawa, dj-set Sat, 31.01. 22.00 hrs DJ-set by Miyuki Osawa, singer of the japanese band Draco. Released their first album 'Enter the Draco' on the US indie label Slabco and 7inch single from UK indie label Bad Jazz in 2000, and their second album 'South of the Border' from japanese label Positive Pro in 2002. Currently working on her solo album. Her dj-set tends to be more housy comparing to the electronic rock sound of her band. Geronimo Inutiq (aka madeskimo) with Kyd Campbell Sun, 01.02. 22.00 hrs madeskimo will flood the final hours of the Transmediale with sounds from the great North. madeskimo is the alter-ego of Geronimo Inutiq. Using electronic music equipment, he presents sounds and music referencing dub, electronica, urban music, and electroacoustics, all with the cultural filter of having originated in the changing face of the Canadian arctic. Also someone quite metropolitain, of Aboriginal and French Canadian ancestry, madeskimo represents the cultural dynamics of a 21st century Canadian true and through and stands to bring a challenging and refreshing postmodern aboriginal and Canadian dynamic take on electronic music to the world. http://madeskimo.net
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3. Performances: Overbug Fri, 30.01. 17.00 hrs, Cafe Global Sun, 01.02. 16.00 hrs, Cafe Global Hiroshi Matoba's 'Overbug' is a music-performance tool designed to compose minimal, dance and pop music. By arranging looping sound patterns, called 'Bugsounds', the program creates complex, polyrhythmic compositions. Overbug differs from conventional linear-controlled music sequencers, which arrange sound into a timeline from left to right. In Overbug, the sound arrangement of the repetitious musical loops are visually abstracted into circles which can be moved and manipulated. Hiroshi Matoba is a nominee for the transmediale Award 2009. http://www.dominofactory.net/Overbug/
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4. backyard radio Theme Time Radio: the early show http://backyardradio.de Backyardradio will broadcast live from the transmediale. 09. Four one-hour experimental discussions on themes related to the festival start the day (available as livestream and podcast). Everybody ist invited to join in on specific themes, with acoustic interventions and remixing. In the House of World Cultures there will be installed several radios for easy listening.
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5. Open Space The Open Space invites you to present your projects during the festival and invites you to discuss your ideas with the audience, artists and guests. Registration: openspace@transmediale.de Thu 29.01. 14.30 hrs, Cafe Global Margarita Dorovska: Transitland A collaborative European project to create a video archive of transition from the fall of the Berlin wall to the most recent rounds of EU accession. Peter Zorn: European Media Art Network (EMAN) EMAN Coordinator Peter Zorn presents the partners, the structure and the aims of the network, that creates a backbone of Media Labs and Festivals. Fri 30.01. 14.30 hrs, Cafe Global Perry Bard: Man with A Movie Camera: The Global Remake Perry Bard talks about her web-based editing project. She is a nominee for the transmediale Award 2009. Reynold Reynolds: Six Apartments Reynold Reynolds talks about his work and his approach to space and human interaction. He is a nominee for the transmediale Award 2009. Sat 31.01. 14.00 hrs, Cafe Global Joanna Render: Re_Thinking Net.Art Gallery owner Joanna Render talks about placing online artworks in the art market and presents her Online Art exhibition 'Rethinking About'. Sat, 31.01. 15.30 hrs, Cafe Global Time's up: Luminous Green Time's Up has been developing large scale interactive situations since 1996 with a tendency towards large steel and pneumatic devices. 'Luminous Green' is a series of workshops that explores the possibilities of living well and sustainably in the world. In this short presentation Time's Up will explain some of the points that were of importance in the workshop: local actions, utilising regional assets, in our case industrial waste and the body of water, social organisation, 're-importing' developing world technologies to 'the west', and many others. Sun 01.02. 14.00 hrs, Salon Miriam Mlecek & guest curators: Transit Lounge - Moving while standing still Reporting back from an online dialogue asking: What happens when movement and escape from (or to) home becomes impossible? Sun 01.02. 16.00 hrs, Salon Public Netbase editorial team: NON STOP FUTURE A discussion on the recent Netbase publication on the future of art and culture in digital networks.
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transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH festival for art and digital culture berlin http://www.transmediale.de info@transmediale.de
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